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We present a mixer-duplexer-antenna leaky-wave system based on periodic space-time modulation. This system operates as a full transceiver, where the upconversion and downconversion mixing operations are accomplished via space-time…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Sajjad Taravati , Christophe Caloz

Synthetic magnetism has been recently realized using spatiotemporal modulation patterns, producing non-reciprocal steering of charge-neutral particles such as photons and phonons. Here, we design and experimentally demonstrate a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Zhaoxian Chen , Zhengwei Li , Jingkai Weng , Bin Liang , Yanqing Lu , Jianchun Cheng , Andrea Alu

This article presents a fully 3D-printed wideband metasurface folded reflectarray antenna (MFRA) operating in the millimeter-wave n257 band. The proposed MFRA integrates a novel polarization-rotating reflective metasurface (RMS), a compact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Evangelos Vassos , Thomas Whittaker , Abdul Jabbar , Aakash Bansal , Will Whittow

Inducing nonreciprocal wave propagation is a fundamental challenge across a wide range of physical systems in electromagnetics, optics, and acoustics. Recent efforts to create nonreciprocal devices have departed from established…

Optical nonreciprocity is manifested as a difference in the transmission of light for the opposite directions of excitation. Nonreciprocal optics is traditionally realized with relatively bulky components such as optical isolators based on…

We investigate characteristics of radio frequency interference (RFI) signals that can affect the excision potential of some interference mitigation algorithms. The techniques considered are those that modify signals from auxiliary reference…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-01 D. A. Mitchell , J. G. Robertson

An optical signal that propagates along a conventional waveguide is back reflected at waveguide terminations. If the waveguide permits only one-way propagation, this back reflection cannot take place; the optical signal undergoes a nearly…

Optics · Physics 2011-10-18 Y. Hadad , Ben Z. Steinberg

It has been demonstrated that dynamic refractive index modulation, which breaks time-reversal symmetry, can be used to create on-chip non-reciprocal photonic devices. In order to achieve amplitude non-reciprocity, all such devices moreover…

This letter proposes a novel anti-interference communication method leveraging computational antennas, utilizing time averaging and 1-bit reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to achieve robust signal modulation with minimal hardware…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xiaocun Zong , Fan Yang , Shenheng Xu , Maokun Li

An electronically reconfigurable dual-band-reflectarray antenna is presented in this paper. The tunable unit cell, a ring loaded square patch with a single varactor diode connected across the gap between the ring and the patch, is modeled…

We propose and theoretically demonstrate nonreciprocal negative refraction enabled by time-varying photonic structures. By engineering temporal modulations at the interfaces of hyperbolic media, we achieve isolation between forward and…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Mohammad R. Tavakol , Wenshan Cai

For the purpose of using plasmonics in an integrated scheme where single emitters can be probed efficiently, we experimentally and theoretically study the scattering properties of single nano-rod gold antennas as well as antenna arrays…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-18 Felipe Bernal Arango , Andrej Kwadrin , A. Femius Koenderink

We prove the possibility of achieving non-reciprocal wave propagation in space-time modulated media and give an asymptotic analysis of the non-reciprocity property in terms of the amplitude of the time-modulation. Such modulation causes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

The natural source of a magnetic dipole in antennas is typically an electrically small loop, which can be utilized in conjunction with an electric dipole to realize an electrically small Huygens' antenna. However, these antennas suffer from…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Muhammad Rizwan Akram , Abbas Semnani

Non-reciprocal devices are of increasing interest in quantum information technologies. This paper examines whether the presence of a non-reciprocal device in an optical channel is detectable by the communicating parties. We find that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 James E Troupe , Antia Lamas-Linares

Non-reciprocal transmission of motion is potentially highly beneficial to a wide range of applications, ranging from wave guiding, to shock and vibration damping and energy harvesting. To date, large levels of non-reciprocity have been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Martin Brandenbourger , Xander Locsin , Edan Lerner , Corentin Coulais

We experimentally demonstrate plasmonic nano-circuits operating as sub-diffraction directional couplers optically excited with high efficiency from free-space using optical Yagi-Uda style antennas at \lambda = 1550 nm. The optical Yagi-Uda…

The quest for efficient and versatile microwave and optical isolators has recently spawned several novel space-time-modulated isolator structures. However, such space-time isolators suffer from a large profile and complex architecture…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Waveguides subject to spatiotemporal modulations are known to exhibit nonreciprocal vibration transmission, whereby interchanging the locations of the source and receiver change the end-to-end transmission characteristics. The scenario of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

We introduce a systematic approach to design all-passive subwavelength high performance metasurfaces that exhibit nonreciprocal properties and achieve wave-flow isolation. Moreover we build upon those findings and propose a new paradigm for…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-23 Ahmed M. Mahmoud , Arthur R. Davoyan , Nader Engheta